• NUCLEAR POWERCutting Nuclear Power Plant Costs: Argonne Develops Framework for Smarter Maintenance

    By Marguerite Huber

    Merge a multiphysics simulation with real nuclear reactor inspection data and the result is a revolutionizing tool that predicts component failure before it happens. The study combines advanced simulations with real-world testing to predict how feedwater heater tubes, which preheat water before it enters a nuclear reactor, break down over time. The powerful new tool improves maintenance strategies and extend component lifespan.

  • NUCLEAR POWERINL Advances Department of Defense’s Project Pele Demonstration Microreactor with First TRISO Fuel Delivery

    The recent delivery of advanced nuclear fuel to the Idaho National Laboratory’s Transient Reactor Test Facility marks a major milestone for Project Pele, a first-of-its-kind mobile microreactor prototype designed to provide resilient power for military operations.

  • POWER-GRID SABOTAGEHacking the Grid: How Digital Sabotage Turns Infrastructure into a Weapon

    By Saman Zonouz

    The darkness that swept over the Venezuelan capital in the predawn hours of Jan. 3, 2026, signaled a profound shift in the nature of modern conflict: the convergence of physical and cyber warfare. The blackout was the result of a precise and invisible manipulation of the industrial control systems that manage the flow of electricity. This synchronization of traditional military action with advanced cyber warfare represents a new chapter in international conflict, one where lines of computer code that manipulate critical infrastructure are among the most potent weapons.

  • KING COALTrump Is Keeping Coal on Life Support. How Long Can It Last?

    By Katie Myers and Jake Bittle

    Heading into President Donald Trump’s second term, coal looked like an industry nearing the end of its life. In 2025, however, regulatory rollbacks and surging power demand helped buoy an industry in trouble.

  • ENERGY SECURITYTrump Is Trying to Kill Clean Energy. The Market Has Other Plans.

    By Matt Simon

    The administration’s moves have done real damage to the nation’s ability to fight climate change. But strong countervailing forces — including falling prices for renewables, surging demand for electricity, and aggressive campaigns by states and cities to slash emissions — continue to drive the transition to clean energy. The result is a growing tension between federal policy and market reality, but in many ways, renewables are unstoppable.

  • GEOMAGNETIC STORMSWhat a Solar Superstorm Could Mean for the U.S.

    By Steven Sobieszćzyk, Ayesha Davis, and Jeffrey J. Love

    If a geomagnetic storm as large as the famed “Carrington Event” of 1859 were to occur today, it could adversely affect telecommunications and electric power transmission systems across the U.S., especially in the Midwest and the East Coast.

  • SECURITY GUARDSSecurity Guards at Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant Demand Vote to Remove SPFPA Union Officials

    The NLRB is the federal agency responsible for enforcing federal labor law, a task that includes administering votes to install (or “certify”) and remove (or “decertify”) unions in workplaces. Security guards at Vogtle have collected enough signatures to prompt the NLR to administer union removal vote.

  • NUCLEAR POWERThe Significance of the Vogtle Nuclear Plant

    Vogtle nuclear plant in Georgia represents a rare successful completion of new reactors in the U.S. in the twenty-first century, showing that nuclear remains technically viable — albeit expensive and slow by modern infrastructure standards. For better or for worse, its experience has become a case study for future nuclear projects and underscores the challenges the industry faces in large-scale construction.

  • NUCLEAR SAFETYHow Hollywood-Style “Break in” Rooms Are Securing the Future of Nuclear

    By Sarah Lusk

    Security is paramount for the nation’s current fleet of light water reactors, but the stakes for small modular reactors are especially high. Small modular reactors promise quicker build timelines and lower operating costs than light water reactors. They achieve these enhancements through better designs, higher levels of automation and smaller operating crews. But those same design choices could expand the opportunity for cyber and insider threats.

  • NATURAL HAZARDSDashboard to Analyzes Natural Hazard Risk to Bank Branches

    New interactive dashboard is designed for banks—whether large institutions like JPMorgan Chase or small community banks—to understand how natural disasters such as floods, storms or heatwaves could affect their assets and branch locations.

  • SECURITY TECHNOLOGYEntity Resolution: The Security Technology You Probably Haven’t Heard Of

    By Kyle McCurdy

    The concept “entity resolution” (ER) is probably unfamiliar, but it underpins much of the world’s security—in telecommunications, banking and national security.

  • ENERGY SECURITYTrump Has Always Hated Offshore Wind. Now He’s Moving to Kill It.

    By Tik Root

    The Department of Interior abruptly paused the leases for five of the nation’s largest proposed offshore wind projects last month. That effectively halts all ongoing offshore wind development in the United States.

  • DISASTERSWest Coast Levee Failures Show Growing Risks from America’s Aging Flood Defenses

    By Farshid Vahedifard

    Across the U.S., levees are getting older while weather is getting more extreme. Many of these structures were never designed for the enormous responsibility they now carry.

  • DISASTERSYou’ve Heard of Climate Change. What Is the Climate Debt Doom Loop?

    By Cynthia McCormick Hibbert

    The low-cost way for municipalities to fund responses and preparedness for the floods, fires and other disasters.

  • WATER SECURITYFeds Demand Compromise on Colorado River While States Flounder Amid Water Shortage

    By Jeniffer Solis

    Western states that rely on the Colorado River have less than two months to agree on how to manage the troubled river – and pressure is mounting as the federal government pushes for a compromise and a troubling forecast for the river’s two biggest reservoirs looms.